Comedy is acting out optimism.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that`s OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

That which costs little is less valued.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.